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In our era of furious certainties, when we are daily urged to know the world in absolutes, poetry offers us a much-needed space to be uncertain and to change our minds, argues Tess Taylor.

Against a tide of weariness, I have two pieces of advice on this Earth Day, embedded in National Poetry Month: start a garden, and read or write a poem, writes Tess Taylor.

MIDCOAST — "Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry," edited by Christopher Nelson and published by Green Linden Press, has at its heart the idea that poetry can reveal our shared

MADISON - The Museum of Early Trades and Crafts (METC) will spring ahead into April with several seasonal activities in April.

In January 2023, poet Tess Taylor told CNN Opinion readers how a daily haiku practice was changing her life. At the end of the year, she reached out to ask readers to share how that practice might be changing theirs. Hundreds of submissions later, Taylor shares the haiku that are getting readers through.

In January 2023, poet Tess Taylor told CNN Opinion readers how a daily haiku practice was changing her life. At the end of the year, she reached out to ask readers to share how that practice might be changing theirs. Hundreds of submissions later, Taylor shares the haiku that are getting readers through.

In January 2023, poet Tess Taylor told CNN Opinion readers how a daily haiku practice was changing her life. At the end of the year, she reached out to ask readers to share how that practice might be changing theirs. Hundreds of submissions later, Taylor shares the haiku that are getting readers through.

New year, more poetry: Tess Taylor ended 2022 by sharing how writing a daily haiku changed her life. Now she’s ending 2023 and greeting a new year by inviting CNN Opinion readers to share how this tiny daily poem might change - or maybe already has changed - theirs.

You are invited to embrace creativity and creation at “Soil + Light: A Poetry Event at The Farminary.” Featuring accomplished poets Camille T. Dungy and Tess Taylor, the reading Friday,...

Poet Tess Taylor, editor of the new book “Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them,” writes that this Labor Day, wherever you are, I hope you find time for some of what Andrew Marvell famously called “a green thought in a green shade.”